***A little about the history of our home:

Our house was built in 1888. In 1895 it was rented by five siblings: Charles, Mathilda ("Mattie" or "Tillie"), Edward ("Ed"), Daniel ("Dan") and Thomas Jr. Bracken. The children of Thomas Bracken Sr. and his wife Mary, they moved here together after the death of their mother.

Dan was a bit of a local football hero. Click here for a contemporary account of one of his big games (as reported in the local paper on Sunday, October 13, 1895).

Over the years, the Brackens followed opportunities which scattered them throughout the country. Charles moved to Montana, married, and started a successful butcher business. Dan went to Colorado to follow mining prospects, and eventually owned his own mine before dying in a tunnel collapse. Tillie was the only Bracken who remained in Port Townsend; when her older brothers started to leave, she married Charles Webber (sometimes spelled "Weber"), an immigrant of northern european origin (some census records list him as german, while other archived materials claim him to have been Dutch.) The couple lived for over fifty years in a little house just one block away from the home Tillie had rented with her brothers. Tom Jr., the baby of the family, lived with Tillie and her new husband until he was old enough to strike out on his own, at which point he joined the military. He served in Hawai'i during the first World War, then taught at a military academy on the U.S.'s east coast.

In a seaport town in the late 19th-century Pacific Northwest, a group of friends find themselves drawn together —by chance, by love, and by the marvelous changes their world is undergoing. In the process, they learn that the family we choose can be just as important as the ones we're born into. Join their adventures in

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